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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Audiobook)
by (shelved 7 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.54 — 687 ratings — published
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.35 — 318 ratings — published
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.17 — 496 ratings — published 2001
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,518 ratings — published 2013
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.14 — 462,846 ratings — published 1995
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.12 — 884 ratings — published 1996
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,143 ratings — published 2023
"When the Welfare People Come": Race and Class in the US Child Protection System (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.98 — 113 ratings — published
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,376,106 ratings — published 2005
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.59 — 3,141 ratings — published 2009
Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 67 ratings — published 2012
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.58 — 42,454 ratings — published 2007
Stranger Care (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,683 ratings — published 2021
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.34 — 289,137 ratings — published 2014
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,735 ratings — published 1997
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,892,269 ratings — published 2018
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 234,012 ratings — published 2011
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,633 ratings — published 2008
Push (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.88 — 59,583 ratings — published 1996
The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.73 — 107 ratings — published 2025
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.18 — 972 ratings — published 1996
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,148 ratings — published 2024
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.46 — 825,509 ratings — published 2022
Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.41 — 668 ratings — published
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker – A Groundbreaking Investigation of Systemic Racism in Foster Care and Black Families (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.19 — 547 ratings — published 2024
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,012,769 ratings — published 2020
Separated: Inside An American Tragedy (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,761 ratings — published 2020
Working with Adoptive Parents: Research, Theory, and Therapeutic Interventions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 2013
Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.26 — 237 ratings — published 2011
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,576 ratings — published 2021
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,324,825 ratings — published 2017
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.41 — 110,785 ratings — published 2021
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,780 ratings — published 2016
News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.08 — 112,922 ratings — published 2016
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 86,119 ratings — published 1959
The Tiger's Child: What Ever Happened to Sheila? – A Teacher's True Story: The Sequel About a Silent Girl's Transformation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,623 ratings — published 1995
The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.65 — 124 ratings — published
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,830 ratings — published 1993
Taking Children: A History of American Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 133 ratings — published 2020
Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,045 ratings — published 2016
The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.65 — 60 ratings — published 1996
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,445,578 ratings — published 2017
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.29 — 244,942 ratings — published 2012
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.40 — 736,519 ratings — published 2017
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.97 — 148,212 ratings — published 2011
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.49 — 18,370 ratings — published 2002
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.24 — 209 ratings — published 2006
Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.32 — 25,196 ratings — published 2013
Somebody Else's Children: The Courts, The Kids, and The Struggle to Save America's Troubled Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.17 — 122 ratings — published 1997
I Speak for This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.20 — 311 ratings — published 1995
“In fact, about 75 percent of child welfare cases involve not abuse but neglect, which can often be caused by or confused with poverty.”
― We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
― We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
“It is inappropriate to call child protection "care" when experiences of the system are not "care"-like for everyone. "Care" essentializes the softening of a system that has a violent colonial history of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and has continued to feed its children into pipelines of homelessness and housing instability, poverty, prison and other problematic and violent systems. It fails to acknowledge that it is a system, one of which is plagued with the overrepresentation of Indigenous and Black children and families, a system built on white colonial racist values. "Care" as a word minimizes and erases the inequitable realities children, young people, families, and communities face across, not only the province of Ontario, but across the Nation. Child Protection System.”
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